Turkey the first in human rights abuses
Turkey tops the list of countries whose children are subjected to repressive violations by the ruling “Justice and Development” authorities in Turkey headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to increase the rate of human rights violations in one year by 20%.
The phrase “Erdogan has thrown the rights of his citizens in the trash” has been mentioned several times on the pages of local and international media regarding human rights violations in Turkey, after the Justice and Development government recorded about 40 violations of article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights on the Protection of Freedom of Thought and Expression, In addition, Ankara has ranked second in violation of various provisions of article VI relating to the right to a fair trial, according to 53 international convictions.
According to a monitoring report published by Turkey Now website, the harvesting of human rights issues under the rule of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan over a whole year was as follows :
First : Crackdown on Abdullah Gülen opposition movement
292,000 Turkish citizens for whom arrest warrants have been issued for membership in the service movement led by Turkish preacher Fethullah Gülen, whom Ankara classifies as a terrorist organization and holds responsible for the failed coup in July 2016.
69,000 Turkish citizens detained by Turkish police on charges of belonging to the Gulen group.
25,655 Turkish citizens sentenced to rigorous imprisonment on terrorism charges for belonging to the group.
102,000 security operations organized by the Ministry of the Interior against the group’s members, 76 of them major operations, 307 medium-sized operations, 99,000 in rural villages and 2,900 in major cities.
809 citizens were killed under the pretext of “terrorist elimination” in Turkish police security operations against service movement.
67,000 security operations were carried out in state institutions and private institutions, where the houses of those working in those institutions were raided. Investigations were conducted with anyone who was involved in terrorist operations.
Second : Suppression of activities of the opposition Kurdistan Workers’ Party :
115,000 arrests made by the Turkish Interior Ministry against Turkish citizens allegedly belonging to the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, which Ankara classifies as a terrorist organization, in 2020.
1,105 citizens were killed during operations organized by the defense and interior ministries against the party, including only 102 who were found to be affiliated with the party and were involved in terrorist crimes. The rest were killed immediately upon criminal suspicions against them.
Third : “Insulting the President”.. Turkish men face fines and years in prison
According to Article 299 of the Turkish Penal Code, the term of imprisonment is one to four years for insulting the president. During 2020, the number of citizens who received fines or were imprisoned on this charge was as follows:
More than 36,000 citizens have been investigated for insulting the president.
3,831 citizens sentenced to prison terms in 2020 for insulting the Turkish president.
3,000 citizens forced to pay huge sums after being accused of insulting the president.
In 2018, 5,233 Turkish citizens were tried on the same charge, and this number increased to 12,298 in 2019.
Fourth : “Arbitrary Dismissal”.. Erdogan’s weapon to purge state institutions of dissidents
151 elected members were arbitrarily dismissed from their posts, headed by municipalities belonging to opposition parties, on the grounds of belonging to terrorist organizations.
73 elected opposition mayors, arrested and sentenced to a total of 694 years, 998 months and 338 days in prison, while other legal proceedings are ongoing.
42,000 citizens were fired for allegedly supporting the Gülen movement.
14,000 citizens were suspended on charges of communicating with members of the Gülen movement.
Fifth : Torture in Erdogan’s Prisons
Detainees in Turkish prisons are subjected to various types of human rights violations, including torture, ill-treatment, deliberate negligence of health procedures, and other legal violations that are devoid of humanity. The number of victims of Turkish detention as a result of health neglect increased to 88 in 2020, including 20 Coronavirus patients. In addition, four cases died of other diseases in the Agre Patnos prison.
Turkish prisons recorded 1,289 cases of torture and ill-treatment of detainees in 2020, and 728 people arrested in one day (February 18) were subjected to severe violations and severe torture by Ankara police before their release.
Turkey has also recorded 483 cases of abuse of detainees, including 78 cases of torture involving ill-treatment by police officers.
On the subject of violations of the rights of opinion and expression .. Local and international human rights organizations have reported 1,040 violations of freedom of expression, whether arrests, bans, threats or fines. 502 cases, including violations of the rights of “freedom of thought and expression”.
Violations included the arrest of a journalist, the detention of eight journalists, the imprisonment and fine of 15 others, the suspension of four journalists from work, the opening of judicial investigations with five, and the assault on a journalist during 2020.
The violations of women’s rights in Turkey were clear in 2020, at a crime rate every 15 hours. Women in Turkey suffer from persecution and violence under Erdogan’s rule, from domestic violence, harassment and rape, to mass arrests of female demonstrators, as well as targeting of female activists and organizations.
The Turkish regime, headed by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, concluded in 2020 with a scandal after Turkish girls and women broke their silence and revealed what they had been subjected to in Turkish sections and prisons, including torture and forced nudity in front of officers and prison guards.
A group of former female prisoners posted graphic shocking testimonies on social media, saying they had been subjected to degrading methods of searching during their detention and harshly criticized Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s ruling party, which has sparked a widespread outcry outside Turkey.
The rate of victims of violence against women in Turkey has seen an unprecedented increase in 2020, by 33% from the previous year. In 2020, about 560 women filed complaints with the government, and 21% of them were abused by public officials who filed complaints against them .. The following is the digital statement of the violations suffered by women of Turkey under Erdogan’s rule in 2020 and the ruling Justice and Development Party’s government is slackening its measures to stop violence against women in Turkey :
482 women killed by men .
97 women were harassed.
53 women raped.
At least 607 women were forced to work in prostitution.
493 women subjected to violence by men during the year.
715 women subjected to violence and coercion without protection from the authorities .
26% of victims who applied for protection were subjected to violence by their husbands.
86% of women who died were shot dead in their home.
18 members of women’s rights associations file mass resignations for violations by their colleagues in the ruling Justice and Development Party in Turkey, both physical violations and human rights violations.
Women in Turkey have also been subject to numerous persecution in the field of labor, during the year, due to male dominance in the judiciary. In Turkey, there are 20,629 judges and prosecutors, only 35.9% of them are women, and 64.1% are men.
By the end of 2020, the number of women detained in Turkish prisons had risen to 18,000, including arrests from 2016 to December 2020, all categories of women from housewives to women journalists, teachers, academics, doctors, professionals and women in business, alleging links to terrorist groups without any legal basis.
And according to documented human rights reports .. The year 2020 witnessed the arrest of 44 Turkish women, including the honorary president of the municipality of Sunida Tubrak, journalist Asha Kara, and women’s leaders of the Organization for Women’s Rights. This comes within the framework of the investigations being conducted by Turkey to arrest members of the Kurdish Democratic Society Conference.
Five female opposition figures in Turkey have been threatened with rape and abduction at gunpoint by their anti-Erdogan political views: Turkish actress Berna Lachin, journalist Nafshin Manju, Republican People’s Party’s Istanbul Provincial Head Janan Qafantengi Oglu and lawyer Faiza Alton.
It is worth mentioning that the Turkish judiciary refused to consider the calls they made against the extremist criminals Erdogan supporters who threatened to rape them. The Turkish Public Prosecution considered these threats as nothing more criticism, and decided to stop the investigation.
Rights organizations and women’s movements in Turkey have attacked a proposal by the ruling Justice and Development Party to amend the amnesty law, which provides for amnesty for perpetrators of rape on the condition that they marry victims, as part of a new judicial package announced by Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on January 16, 2020.
The social opposition led by women’s organizations has succeeded in pressuring the governing authority to drop the bill, but this was enough for the Erdoğan regime to take revenge on female leaders and figures opposed to it throughout 2020 .
The year 2020 witnessed widespread violations of children’s rights in Turkey, where thousands of Turkish children were victims of violations, including sexual assaults, rape crimes, violent crimes, whether by the family, or by labor officials who violate the UN Charter on child labor. In contrast, Turkish children face a reduced number of arrests and face imprisonment .. This was in terms of the digital monitoring of impartial human rights organizations as follows :
800 children between the ages of one and six are in the Turkish regime’s prisons, according to the Network of Prison Children of the Civil Society Association.
308 children face judicial sentences for allegedly insulting the Turkish President, a figure announced from the end of 2019 until the end of 2020, as these children face various types of human rights violations and ill-treatment in prisons.
Three children died in summary execution during indiscriminate shooting, while one child died from landmines, bombs and explosives, who were not identified.
Between 2016 and the end of 2020, Turkish courts have recorded a 50% increase in child rape cases in Turkey over the past five years.
Statistics released by the Center for the Rights of the Child show that the number of victims of sexual exploitation of children in Turkey increased during the first three months of 2020 to 689, including 483 children who were raped, 83 of whom were under the age of 12, a large percentage compared with the number of sexually abused children last year, which was 154, including 72 children under the age of the age of the age of the age of 15.
In 2020, the number of victims of violent crimes against children rose to 968 in 2020, including 568 cases of domestic violence, 233 of them under the age of 12.
According to the Turkish Statistics Institute, there are 2 million child workers, and 8 out of 10 children work in unsafe conditions.
